You know, I jumped on the “iPhone HD” bandwagon a long time ago as the next epithet for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s handset and it looks like the next version volition be able to track record videos at 720p solving.

From what we’ve seen of the leaked next iPhone, we already know that the French telephone will wealthy person a different shape cistron, a higher-resolution blind and a boosted photographic camera. But code in the iPhone 4.0 beta 3 suggests users volition also be able to record in high-definition. The preset values in the video recording computer code are:

AVCaptureSessionPreset640×480 AVCaptureSessionPreset1280×720

This would be a great addition to the next iPhone and I tin can already see the TV commercials this would spawn. What’s more, Apple really does need to rap it out of the ballpark with the next hardware upgrade because the competition is rapidly contracting up. The iPhone 3GS was pretty much the power of the hill cobbler’s last summer but we’ve already seen some amazing handsets from other players. HTC’s Droid Incredible lives up to its name, the EVO 4G will marry WiMax good with a great designing and even Research In Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) whitethorn be stepping up its game with BlackBerry 6.

I think HD video recording will soon become board stake in the mobile world, as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Kin Two (or Kin2) tin can do it and this is clearly not aiming for the hemorrhage margin customers. Apple’s effectuation of video transcription on the iPhone 3GS was pretty solidness too, as you could easily trim clips and send them. Knowing how much AT&ere;T (New York Stock Exchange: T)’s network has suffered thanks to the iPhone, I wouldn’t be surprised if there volition be a 30-second limit for HD videos that you tin can upload.

We’ll know all the inside information in just a few weeks friends, as Apple is expected to introduce the next iPhone at its World Wide Developers Conference June 7. Why yes, we’ll be there live blogging, thanks for asking.

[Via MacRumors]

Remember that scumbag who ripped off a guy’s fingerbreadth while trying to bargain his iPad? Well, luckily, the police have arrested a suspect in the heinous theft.

Brandon Darnell Smith is the alleged scumbag and it looks like they got the right guy cable if you checkout out the video recording below. We’ll see what kind of penalty he gets. It could be pretty severe because of the injuries suffered. Don River’t vigil the video if you’re squeamish, by the means.

[Via The Denver Post, photo]

We oasis’t seen much from RIM in the past tense year or so, although handset gross sales rich person been very strong scorn our misgivings about the BlackBerry manufacturer’s stream direction.

The BlackBerry Pearl 3G is the first new Pearl "candy bar" headphone since the 8110 announced over deuce days ago, and it’s the first base Pearl handset to documentation 3G. It’s amazing to think that the Pearl has come all this means without 3G support, but in fact criterion electronic messaging trading operations really father’t motivation anything more than plain old GPRS.

This is more than the old edition of the Pearl with 3G support slapped on, the Pearl 3G comes with a very high gear solving 360 x 400 pel exhibit, a 3.2 megapixel photographic camera with flash and autofocus, support for 802.11 b, g and n wireless local area network (ace of the few phones that supports the new, faster 802.11n protocol). Inside is a 624Mhz C.P.U. (twice as fast as the 8110) and 256MB memory. The Pearl 3G has GPS documentation built in, and it supports Bluetooth 2.1 and microSD memory cards up to 32GB as well.

The operating system and drug user interface has been upgraded to version 5.0 of the BlackBerry OS, and it now supports synching with iTunes and Windows Media Player. From what we can see of the drug user interface, the whole thing matter has been tidied up from the previous version which looked rather cluttered.

One key feature is that the Pearl 3G has dropped the trackball on the front and has replaced it with a small optical trackpad. In our experience the trackpad is much easier to manipulation than the old trackball, and it should be more resilient too. There are dedicated media keys on the very top of the Pearl 3G to make medicine playback easier.

There are two different versions of the Pearl 3G, the 9100 comes with a familiar spirit version of the SureType keyboard, the 9105 uses a traditional mobile phone layout for the keypad which whitethorn wellspring appealingness to new customers. The overall designing is much smarter and more conventional than previous versions of the Pearl, and it’s nice to see a capable messaging smartphone in a such a pouch friendly design.

The large 1150 mAh battery is quoted as gift up to 5.5 hours talktime on 3G networks, and overall the Pearl 3G weighs just 93 grams and measures 108 x 50 x 13mm. This is a tri-banding UMTS/HSDPA device with documentation for quadrangle-band GSM, so we expect this to twist up on tons of different carriers worldwide.

RIM say that the Pearl 3G should be available from May 2010 onwards, although at the consequence we rich person no steering on pricing or networks.

BlackBerry Pearl 3G Promo Video

This is a legal brief promo from RIM showing how impossibly glamorous your sprightliness will be if you buy ace of these.

Heading to Rogers and Alexander Bell, the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 will cost $79.99 on a new 3-class contract. At least, if we’re departure to read this internal inventory screenshot like we should, that’s what we’re lead to believe. So, if the $449.99 monetary value rag is too much to drink, then hopefully signing that 3-class contract doesn’t annoyance you all that much.

At this point, we’ve got: custody-on time with the gimmick, screenshots of the blank handsets, leaked inventory images of the full, contract bridge-free monetary value, and now what the gimmick volition monetary value on contract bridge. But, we’re distillery missing one very, very important matter. Confirmation that the device exists from Research In Motion. That’s right field, it’s still not official. So, Waterloo, let’s measure it up, shall we?

[via MobileSyrup]

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) absolutely crushed its second quarter, as the company produced its topper non-vacation after part every with earnings of $3.07 billion thanks to the staggering winner of the iPhone.

The troupe sold 8.75 one thousand thousand iPhones in the after part, a massive 131% increase from the same period a year ago, primarily thanks to increased sales in Asia Pacific Ocean, Japanese Archipelago and EEC. The smartphone continues to sell fountainhead in the United States but markets like China are looking increasingly tasty for Apple. That’s why I wouldn’t be surprised if those CDMA iPhone rumors we’ve heard about ar meant for Chinese networks only.

“We’re thrilled to report our best non-vacation after part ever, with revenues up 49% and earnings up 90%,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a prepared financial statement. “We’ve launched our subversive new iPad and users ar loving it, and we have several extraordinary products in the pipeline for this class.”

You tin can niggle with Jobs’ manipulation of superlatives but he damn sure knows how to shuffling his troupe some money.

The hits just keep advent too, as the troupe said in a conference call that is is “shocked” by the demand of the iPad but that lozenge whitethorn not have the same high-profit edge as some of the other Apple devices because it clocks in at a cheap-for-Apple base price of $D. There were no specific iPad sales figures precondition but Jobs did say more than 400,000 had been sold at the iPhone OS 4.0 debut. The company also sold 2.94 one thousand thousand Mac units and 10.89 one thousand thousand iPod units.

The company didn’t address the hot level of the workweek: the leaked prototype that is supposedly the next-propagation iPhone. Even though we all knew a new iPhone was coming this summertime, this much publicity could potentially damage sales next quarter because we’ve all seen what’s to come. I’m sure the final iPhone HD/4G will lineament some additional polish than what we’ve seen so far and it will be the same routine: long lines, super duper hype and 1 million units sold in its launch weekend.

a2network Corporation, which is a MVNO for DoCoMo, is launching the Novatel Wireless’ MiFi 2372 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot.

The MiFi 2372 tin sing along all frequencies used in the Land of the rebellion Sunday, including 800MHz, 1900MHz and 2100MHz. In addition to this tri-band wireless, the device also comes with a microSD one-armed bandit for expandable memory board that can be accessed and shared over WiFi link with up to five simultaneous users, connected to the hotspot.

As you probably know, Novatel is touting the MiFi as the “Intelligent Mobile River Hotspot,” which they say is a new category of mobile broadband products. Its differentiating factor is that it creates a personal cloud of high-speeding Internet connectivity that can be easily shared between multiple users and up to five wireless local area network devices such as laptops, cameras, gambling devices and multimedia system players.

In price of availability, a2network will start merchandising the MiFi 2372 device at the remainder of Apr 2010.

A new game sheaf is exercise set to smash the AppStore. We’re talking about a unity diligence with 70 mini games — something that promises to keep everyone entertained for quite some time.

The name of the biz(s) is Crazy Test and it comes from Danish studio apartment Tactile Entertainment, which BTW is also workings on another title – Pocket Creatures.

The games included in the parcel ar pretty simply, and include such things as tapping in meter on a bagpipe pipes, pull a nasal hair out a nose, swing Tarzan to Jane, moving sticks on a campfire so a panda bear can urinate on them and so on.

At the start, you beginning acting all the games in a fixed order. As you unlock them, you tin play the Survival mode, where you play randomly selected games that get quicker and more difficult.

There’s also the Games List, which enables you to choice any game you rich person unlocked frankincense far.

And of course of action, for each completed biz, the trouble is increased, and with the OpenFeint integrating, you are free to share your score with the world.

In price of availability, Crazy Test is close to organism submitted to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), meaning it should hit the AppStore within a week or so.

[Via: PocketGamer.co.uk]

Back in Feb (oh so long ago), Skype promised that 3G calling was coming to a future update for the diligence on the iPhone. Along with 3G, pushing notifications were also meant to be supported, too. However, looks like none of that was included in the update pushed out on Tuesday. So, what did the update do? Fixed some minor bug issues, and it also made the application work perfectly wellspring as a legacy app for iPhone OS 3.2. Which, if you’re not familiar, is much better known as the Operating System run the new Apple iPad.

So, looks like the iPad tin now make calls over a wireless local area network connection from your Skype account. That’s goodness newsworthiness for them, but for the iPhone owners out there waiting for more functionality, you’re going to have to wait a act thirster. You’re already sitting on your custody, right field? Good. Hopefully you’re comfortable, because it could be a twosome months before we get a new update. Or, it could come tomorrow. Who knows.

[via Skype]

Leap Wireless-owned Cricket Communications scored a big dispersion trade with C. H. Best Buy to offer its popular $50 unlimited broadband plan at 450 select Best Buy stores in Cricket markets.

The plans ar already available (since Sunday, March 28) at Best Buy stores, allowing users to enjoy unlimited mobile Internet for only $50 a calendar month. Cricket emphasizes that no contract signing is required, and there will be ne credit checks.

Of course of action, you’ll need a modem to takings reward of Cricket’s service. On that remainder, the carrier is selling the Cricket A600 USB modem for $69.99 with no energizing fee. Once you grab the modem, you tin go for the $50.00 circus tent-up cards and move your workings place to a local park or coffeehouse.

According to Cricket’s COO Al Moschner, the troupe has more than 600,000 people accessing Net with Cricket Broadband overhaul.

And you tin get addition selective information about Cricket’s products and services from their website.

The iPhone’s Safari vane browser is really good for casual web surfboarding, but it sucks when you’re limited to slower data speeds – like EDGE on AT&T (NYSE: T). When that happens, it would be nice to have the choice to manipulation the Opera Mini browser – known for its fast page payload speeds on slower connections – on the iPhone. To that end, Opera has submitted their Opera Mini browser to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in a bid to bring their speedy vane browser to the AppStore. Unfortunately, that leaves us with nothing to do but wait for Apple’s determination on Opera Mini’s fate. Well, almost nonentity.

We had a chance to prevue the Opera Mini iPhone browser and pit it in a page load speeding trial against the iPhone’s native Safari vane web browser. The Safari web browser uses the webkit rendition engine, so it’s great at loading full hypertext markup language vane pages. But, when you’re note able to connect via 3G, you’re departure to notice a real page-payload lag. That’s where Opera’s Turbo technology comes into play. Opera Mini uses Turbo to process web pages through their servers and then sends the rendered pages to the web browser for quick payload. The load times are significantly reduced with Opera Mini, as you tin see in the video below.